So begins the tale of one Severus Snape, but this tale does not begin with the birth of a bouncing baby boy, but rather with the boy's mother. One Elieen Prince, pureblood, Slytherin, Gobstones champion of Hogwarts, and a women well on her way to becoming the youngest potion's mistress in recent history. A rather plain looking young women, she was not very popular with her fellow seventh years, but she already had many marriage proposals given to her parents, as she was the heir to the Prince family fortunes. Hers was a pampered life, spoiled by the riches of her ancestors, but as in many pureblood families, she was raised by houseelves and only interacted with her parents when they deemed it appropriate. It did not phase her though, that was the way of things and she would have to accept her life as a rich, intelligent, plain, but ambitious women. But everyone needs a break once in awhile, so when she was asked by her fellow Slytherins if she wanted to sneak out to go visit a local muggle club with them on their next Hogsmeade trip, she thought, what could it hurt.
We could skip forward 9 months later if we so wanted to, but perhaps a little background on the night our dour potions Professor was created would shed a little light on his personality. It was traditional for the seventh year Slytherins to go slumming with the muggles at least once in their final year at Hogwarts, if only to see what savages they truly were. And many wouldn't find it odd for their slumming to get a little more involved than just dancing. But its was absolutely shameful for a pureblooded and highly intelligent witch to forget to cast a contraceptive spell. Granted, it is usually customary for the male in the "relationship" to cast said spell, for who would want a witch pointing her wand at his "wand" so as to stop the "swimmers" from swimming, but for the spell to be forgotten completely. Quite shameful, but who could remember anything when that muggle could put that large nose of his to such good use.
And so the night was over, and Ellieen was not overly worried, in fact she could remember very little about the night aside that the name she screamed was Tobias and that he was a god in bed. So three weeks later as she was finishing a batch of blood replenishing potion she was quite confused when the normally mellow smelling fumes sent her rushing to pray to the porcelain god. It did not help situations that it was her younger sister that found her there. As a vindictive fifth year, she joyfully informed her parents of Elieen's "sickness", which soon was discovered to be a quite unplanned pregnancy.
Normally, a pureblood family would have relieved young Ellieen of her "pesky little problem" as to not bring shame upon the Prince household. But as they had a secondary heir in the form of Elieen's sister, they instead banished her from their home, but not before making sure that she could not attain revenge on the family. They located Mr. Tobias Snape, a rather poor young man who lived with his sickly parents in a house on Spinners end. Tobias was forcibly wed to Elieen in lue of being turned into a toad, (why does that threat always work so well with muggles?) and Elieen's wand was taken from her and broken by her father. The now "happily" married couple would spend the next eight months getting to know each other as the new Mrs. Snape grew steadily larger.